Hi Steve,

Well, all I know is the neighbors say they can hear my voice plain as day. 
I have never received phone calls from them.  So who really knows.  As far 
as your description of receivers and lines on the television, I had those 
old crystal controlled Bear Cat Scanners made by Electra in the mid and late 
1960's and they really did do a number on television pictures with their 
rather powerful local oscillators.  This was in the day of the rabbit ears 
and the roof mount TV antenna.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: echolink


Ron,

If you're not bothering your own stuff, I'm surprised the neighbors
are having problems.  Do you know for certain that the problem is
coming from your station?  I've always told my neighbors to call me
at the exact time they think I'm interfering with their equipment,
and I've gotten very few calls.  When I did get a call, I was
transmitting, and I stopped, and they were happy.  Maybe I've been
lucky, but I've never had trouble with that sort of thing.  Once,
though, when I was a kid, I had a receiver that put lines onto our
TV.  I didn't understand why at the time, but now I'm pretty sure
that the receiver's local oscillator was being picked up by the TV
set.  My father kept yelling at me to turn down the power, and I kept
arguing that I wasn't transmitting.  I guess we were both right, and
both wrong.

Steve

On Thursday 1/19/06 13:45 Ron Canazzi wrote:
>Hi Steve,
>
>As mentioned before, I have had people--supposedly knowledgeable in these
>areas--check the system out periodically and they find nothing wrong. 
>Oddly
>enough, I get no interference on my stuff at all--even on HF at 100
>watts--except that on 10 meters, I get into my computer speakers.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 12:48 PM
>Subject: Re: echolink
>
>
>John,
>
>I have a Diamond X50 up on the roof, and although I sometimes run 50
>watts on 2 or 450, the only thing I bother is my amplified computer
>speakers.  One of our neighbors lives about 15 feet from my antenna,
>and they have never complained of interference from me, even on
>HF.  Ron, you might want to check your connections.  Cold solder
>joints and corrosion can sometimes cause problems.
>
>Steve
>
>On Thursday 1/19/06 09:36 John Miller wrote:
> >on vacation I stay on 0.25 of an acre at the most might be smaller, and I
> >manage to get something up and get out from there.